| The book is a bittersweet read, but an essential one, as Lingel's clarity and honesty alter the conversation about how design might be different | By examining online life in terms of countercultural communities, Lingel argues that looking at outsider experiences helps us to imagine new uses and possibilities for the tools and platforms we use in everyday life |
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| Jessa Lingel's years of research in communities of alterity culminated in this insightful book that digs into how hegemonic technologies penetrate our lives | Bonnie Nardi Professor, School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine; coauthor of Heteromation, and Other Stories of Computing and Capitalism How countercultural communities have made the Internet meet their needs, subverting established norms of digital technology use |
Instead, Lingel tells stories from the margins of countercultural communities that have made the Internet meet their needs, subverting established norms of how digital technologies should be used.
| Lingel presents three case studies that contrast the imagined uses of the web to its lived and often messy practicalities | Senior Director of Congregate Housing• Senior Director of Behavioral Health• Associate Vice President of Programs• Vice President of Housing Development and Risk Management• Associate Vice President of Housing — Scattered Site Housing• Jessa Lingel's years of research in communities of alterity culminated in this insightful book that digs into how hegemonic technologies penetrate our lives |
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A fresh voice in Internet studies, Lingel deftly opens a window into the worlds, dance clubs, and basements of punks, drag queens, and tattoo enthusiasts, showing us how subcultures bend social technology to their needs.
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